Steve Murphy

Steve Murphy was a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent from the United States who was assigned to Miami in the late 1970s-early 1980s and to Colombia during the late 1980s-early 1990s. Murphy was the partner of Kevin Brady until he was killed by a Medellin Cartel hitman during a sting operation in 1981, and Murphy was angered when the killer was released on bail. Murphy decided to take up an assignment in Colombia to avenge his partner's death, while his wife also had a hatred of the cartels after she had to deal with the death of a drug mule and her unborn child.

DEA career
Steve Murphy was the  He was partnered with Kevin Brady upon joining the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Murphy decided to choose Miami as his posting for the fun and women there. Murphy and Brady successfully busted two hippie marijuana dealers there in 1979, and they decided to celebrate their likely promotion by heading to a bowling alley with friends. There, he met a blonde woman named Connie, and she gave him her phone number, which she claimed was fake. Murphy called her later that night, and they began a romance that would lead to their marriage. Murphy and Brady continued to work together into the early 1980s, when the Miami drug wars began and Colombian bodies piled up in the streets. Murphy's first kill was in 1981, when he had to shoot the teenaged smuggler Cristian Zegarra after he fired on Murphy. That year, Murphy lost his friend when their sting operation against German Zapata was interrupted by Medellin Cartel hitman Juan Diego Diaz spraying the deal with Uzi fire, killing both Zapata and Diaz. Murphy succeeded in capturing Diaz, who was brought to justice in a courtroom.

Colombian drug wars
Murphy decided that he would be like his father and fight against an enemy that had attacked US soil, and Murphy and his wife flew to Bogota, Colombia. Murphy would work with other DEA agents and CIA agents in tracking down drug lords, and he was partnered with fellow DEA agent Javier Pena. DEA spy planes intercepting satellite phone communications passed information to Murphy, who then contacted the Colombian national police's "Search Bloc" unit; the Search Bloc would move in and illegally assassinate their targets in massacres that left many innocents and gangsters dead. In 1989, he helped with the La Dispensaria raid, killing three major drug lords.